From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jul 21 22: 0:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C77E37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A69343E42 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6M50U0i057004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6M50SFJ094809 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:28 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id g6M50Q2T094808; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:26 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:26 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Rob B Cc: John Polstra , alpha@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: How to netboot an Alpha? Message-ID: <20020722050025.GG83916@cicely5.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de> <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20020722114759.01cdd880@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020722114759.01cdd880@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely5.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:49:18AM +1000, Rob B wrote: > At 08:20 22/07/2002, John Polstra sent this up the stick: > >In article <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de>, > >Bernd Walter wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:47:06AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > >> > Could somebody point me to some instructions on how to netboot an > >> > Alpha? I don't need much detail, just a quick jumpstart. I already > >> > know how to netboot an i386 machine using pxeldr. My machine has a > >> > DE500-BA network interface (dc driver). > >> > >> That's what I used with isc-dhcpd some time ago: > >[...] > >> netboot is serviced via tftp. > >> > >> I'm not shure if it still works as there were several rumours > >> about problems with netboot. > > > >Thanks -- that's helpful. But what do I do on the Alpha itself to > >tell it I want to boot from the network? > > If you have the DHCP server and kernel name saved in the corresponding srm > variables, you can do: > > >>> boot ewa0 bootp is there so you don't have to name the server. I never needed to configure them. But now that you say - there are different boot protocolls than bootp - mop I remember. And you might need to setup the interface on the netcard as autoselecting doen't work on some machines. I've setup the following variables. Most of them should be default. ewa0_mode for 100basetx is named fast. ewa0_arp_tries 3 ewa0_bootp_file ewa0_bootp_server ewa0_bootp_tries 3 ewa0_def_ginetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_inetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_inetfile ewa0_def_sinetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_subnetmask 0.0.0.0 ewa0_ginetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_inet_init bootp ewa0_inetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_inetfile ewa0_loop_count 3e8 ewa0_loop_inc a ewa0_loop_patt ffffffff ewa0_loop_size 2e ewa0_lp_msg_node 1 ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair ewa0_protocols BOOTP ewa0_sinetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_tftp_tries 3 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message